Philippe Sollers

Philippe Sollers born Philippe Joyaux 28 November 1936 5 May 2023 was a French writer and critic In 1960 he founded the avant garde literary journal Tel Quel along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet which was published by Le Seuil and ran until 1982 Sollers then created the journal LInfini published first by Denoel then by Gallimard with Sollers remaining as sole editor Sollers was at the heart of the period of intellectual fervour in the Paris of the 1960s and 1970s He contributed to the publication of critics and thinkers such as Jacques Derrida Jacques Lacan Louis Althusser and Roland Barthes Some of them were later described in his novel Femmes 1983 alongside other figures of French intellectualism active before and after May 1968 His writings and approach to language were examined and praised by French critic Roland Barthes in his book Writer Sollers Sollers was born as Philippe Joyaux on 28 November 1936 in Talence France His family ran the local Société Joyaux Frères the iron factory Recalt producing material for kitchens metal constructions and machines for the aircraft manufacturer SNCASO under the German military administration in occupied France during World War II His parents were Octave Joyaux and Marcelle Molinié He moved to Paris in 1955 studied at the Lycée privé SainteGeneviève of Versailles and at the ESSEC Business School Sollers married Julia Kristeva in 1967 He died on 5 May 2023 at the age of 86 Following his first novel A Strange Solitude 1958 hailed by François Mauriac and Louis Aragon Sollers began with The Park 1961 the experiments in narrative form that would lead to Event Drame 1965 and Nombres 1968 Jacques Derrida analyzed these novels in his book Dissemination Sollers then attempted to counter the high seriousness of Nombres in Lois 1972 which featured greater stylistic interest through the use of wordplay and a less formal style The direction taken by Lois was developed through the heightened rhythmic intensity of nonpunctuated texts such as Paradis 1981 Sollerss other novels include Women 1983 Portrait du joueur 1984 Le coeur absolu 1986 Watteau in Venice 1991 Studio 1997 Passion fixe 2000 and Létoile des amants 2002 which introduced a degree of realism to his fiction in that they make more explicit use of plot character and thematic development They offer the reader a fictional study of the society in which he or she lives by reinterpreting among other things the roles of politics media sex religion and the arts Source Article Philippe Sollers from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30